July/August Update: Things, and the Doing Thereof

Thank you so much for everything you create. Take all the time you need. Just finished City in the Middle of the Night and I loved it with all my lesbian heart, currently working on The Authoritarians which sometimes makes me want to scream into the void. Thank you for the difficult work that you do.

Briarwood

Take all the time you need to keep knocking out of the park! High-quality content like yours can't be rushed. I've been a long-time fan of your channel and just subbed on Patreon so I can help support your awesome work

Cole Kraten

I cannot possibly express how very much I value the Endnote 5 video. It is just...so immensely helpful to have all of that information in one place, with citations. It also makes me appreciate the absolute fullness of the caucasity and misogyny operating in GG. Your opening statement to the video matches my feelings on the entire thing *perfectly*.

Kait Hatch

An Untitled Story still holds the #1 spot for me. Despite the unassuming first impression, it ends up being a REALLY captivating experience. Maddy Thorson is probably best known for Celeste and TowerFall these days, but their older work is absolutely worth a look.

Alex D.

What is the email for submitting subtitles again?

Hollow Knight is by far my favourite. I've never been *that* big into metroidvanias on account of my sense of direction being utter garbage, but Hollow Knight drew me in like very few other games have, and it's one of the only games I actually felt compelled to get all of the achievements for and complete 100% (well, 112%) without stopping to play something else in the meantime. One of the most rewarding games I've ever played.

The first area's music is so good

PotentPinion

SotN is still my fav, but I think Hollow Knight has actually eclipsed it as the 'best' metroidvania at this point.

matt

Bloodstained or La-Mulana, depending on my mood.

B. Ratcliff

Hollow Knight will carry my heart until the end of time. that being said, I really enjoyed my time with Axiom Verge! looking forward to trying the sequel

coffee johnson

Yoku's Island Express! (Also Hollow Knight and the Ori games of course.)

Gem Newman

such a good lad, that stag

Ian Danskin

I got to ~107%, but couldn't hack Godhome. Incredible game.

Ian Danskin

Hollow Knight, all day every day. It's the only game I've ever cared to 100% (or, in this case, 112%), and I still keep going back to it.

Andrew

Coincidentally enough, earlier today a friend was telling me I really should play Hollow Knight. But until then, at least, my favorite is the oft-overlooked Castlevania: Circle of the Moon.

Mark Paglia

Yes, I have played Hollow Knight. Nothing will top the joy The Last Stag brings me.

Jamin Shih

Yeah it has to be Hollow Knight, but ignoring that, I'll be contentious and say Smash Run from the 3DS Smash Bros game. Also, Knytt and sequels deserve a mention, Iconoclasts is great but not a metroidvania IMO, and I need to go buy forma.8 because I essentially beat the demo twice. I picked up Dandara again and have lost all my salt to the Dreamlands so I guess I can't be salty, but I sure am frustrated.

PotentPinion

If I were being cheeky, I'd say my favorite Metroidvania is Outer Wilds. But if I'm being sincere, then I have to admit that it is Metroid Fusion. There's a nostalgia element at play here, as it's one of the first I played, but it's also that the... fusion... of that particular gaming genre with the aesthetics of the Alien school of desolate spacefaring science fiction just sings to me.

It's hard to choose between Hollow Knight and Ori and the Blind Forest. HK has better combat and lore / story, but the movement and visuals are so spectacular in Ori. You have to play both, really.

I don't know about "favorite", but I really like Yoku's Island Express, a metroidvania/pinball mashup that works far better than it has any right to. It's also cute as balls, and fun to manipulate once you get the hang of it. Strong recommend. Some other recommendations would be Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet, Song of the Deep, and Sundered, all fun in different ways.

Jules de Bellefeuille Defoy

Ah, The Swapper! I've always thought of it as a puzzle platformer and never noticed it was also a Metroidvania. I pride myself on solving all the puzzles in Braid without a walkthrough, but I had to look up solutions to the final two puzzles in The Swapper. Good game!

Ian Danskin

...I realize now that asking "what's your favorite Metroidvania?" might as well be asking "have you played Hollow Knight?" Nothing else comes close.

Ian Danskin

It's not news, but God it's disturbing how broken the reporting system on YT is and how much power bad faith actors have. Fingers crossed you get it sorted sooner than later. My favorite Metroidvania is also probably my favorite video game (though that's not saying much; I haven't played very many): The Swapper. It's a Metroidvania puzzle platformer with a clever sci-fi hook, gorgeous assets and backgrounds sculpted from clay, and a fascinating narrative that incorporates philosophical questions of identity in a really engaging way (the narrative was written by Tom Jubert, who was also the narrative lead for The Talos Principle, Subnautica, and FTL).

Dean Morgan Camp

I need to play more Metroidvanias. I've recently been replaying Hollow Knight to show it to a friend.

KenofRedLions